BELLRINGER FOR 11/5/12 Get all of your Bellringers ready for the

Bellringer Check.

EARLY CHINAChapter 7

CHINA’S FIRST CIVILIZATIONS

Chapter 7

CHINA’S GEOGRAPHY Huang He

Yellow River“China’s Sorrow”

Chang JiangYangtze

1/10 of land used for farming Middle Kingdom

THE SHANG DYNASTY First rulers Xia Shang

1750-1122 BC Anyang

China’s first capital Social System

King Warlords and royal officials

aristocrats Traders and artisans Farmers Slaves

SPIRITS AND ANCESTORS Honored spirits and ancestors Oracle bones

THE CHINESE LANGUAGE Pictographs Ideographs

ARTISTS Bronze Jade

THE ZHOU DYNASTY Wu Wang Bureaucracy Mandate of Heaven Dao Period of the Warring States

BELLRINGER FOR 11/7/12 Correction makes a wise person wiser. Explain what this means to you in 3-5

sentences.

LIFE IN ANCIENT CHINA

Section 2

LIFE IN ANCIENT CHINA Social class

Landowning aristocratsPeasant farmersmerchants

Filial piety

CHINESE THINKERS Confucius

Confucianism Daoism

LaoziDao de Jing

LegalismHanfeizi

P. 239 #1-6

BELLRINGER FOR 11/8/12 Choose one of the three philosophies we

discussed yesterday that you agree with the most and explain why.

3-5 sentences.

THE QIN AND THE HAN DYNASTIES

Section 3

EMPEROR QIN SHIHUANGDI Qin Dhihuangdi Guangzhou The Great Wall Rebelion

THE HAN DYNASTY Liu Bang Han Wudi Civil Service Inventions acupunture

THE SILK ROAD Soik Road Zhang Qian

MAJOR CHANGES IN CHINA Luoyang